Gun-stock.



I PATENTED MAY 14, 1907. E. J. PERRBY.

GUN STOCK.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 15, 1906.

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EDW'ARD J. PERREY, OF OHAMOIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO VICTOR GAUME AND ONEFOURTI-I TO AUGUST GAUME, OF CROOK,

MISSOURI.

GUN-STOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed May 15, 1906. Serial No. 317,045.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. PERREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oha mois, in the county of Osage and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gun-Stocks, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved gun stock adapted to relieve the shoulder from the uncomfortable and oftentimes injurious shock due to the recoil of the gun, my invention also doing away dth the involuntary dodging occasioned by expecting the jar from the recoil, which often results in causing the marksman to miss the desired mark.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for efiecting the result, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved gun stock Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating a modification.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings the numeral 1 designates the gun stock, which is provided at its end with recesses 2 the inner ends of which are of smaller diameter than the outer ends to produce outwardly facing annular shoulders 4i.

5 designates the butt plate, which may be made of leather or metal or other suitable material, and said butt plate is provided with two or more pins 6 designed to extend into the recesses 2 and slide snugly in the in ner ends of the same. circle the pins 6 and fit within the larger outer ends of the recesses 2 and abut at one end against the shoulders 4 and at their other ends against the inner side of the butt plate 5. To secure the butt plate 5 to the stock of the gun, I have in the present instance provided a sheath 8 which may be of leather or fabric or any desired conformable or flexible material suitable for this purpose Helical springs 7 en-' and which may be secured around the mar gin of the butt plate by tacks or the like 9. The sheath 8 is provided at one side with a longitudinal slot or opening the walls of which may be formed with eyelets 10 through which the lacing 11 is passed to bind the sheath tightly around the butt end of the stock and hold the parts in their proper position.

As shown in Fig. 3 the sheath 8 may be secured with its outer edge clamped between two butt plates 5, instead of employing the tacks 9 or similar fastening devices the two butt plates 5 being secured together to clamp the edge of the sheath in any preferred manner.

In this construction the sheath 8 has its rear edge turned inwardly so as to be clamped securely between the two butt plates 5, the facing sides of said plates being plane, and the rear face of the outermost butt plate being slightly'concave as illustrated.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawings it w1ll be seen that I have provided an improved gun stock which will absorb all of the shock of the recoil or at least a sufficient portion thereof so that the gun may be placed firmly against the shoulder of the person usingit without the uncomfortable and injurious effects of the recoil, and without the necessity or liability of the involuntary shrinking or dodging of the person at the time the gun 1s fired as has been before noted.

The device of my invention may be readily applied to any gun, as is manifest, by merely boring the recesses 2 in the butt end of the gun stock and then lacing the sheathing around said end to hold the butt plate in its proper relation to the stock Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

In combination with a gun stock provided in its butt end with recesses, of a sheathing designed to encircle the butt end of the stock and provided with eyelets adapted to receive a lacing for detachably securing the sheath ing around the stock, said sheathing being of flexible material and having its rear edge turned inwardly, two butt plates secured together on opposite sides of the inwardly turned edge of the sheathing and clamping normally hold the butt plates spaced from said edge between them, the two plates havthe end of the stock. IO ing plane meeting faces and the outermost In testimony whereof I affix my signature plate having a concave outer face, pins sein presence of two Witnesses.

cured to said butt plates and extending for- EDWARD J. PERREY. [L. 5.] wardly and mounted to slide in said recesses, Witnesses; and springs interposed between said butt HERMAN HASSELMAN,

plates and a portion of the stock, whereby to l/VM. R. TONKINS. 

